What Is Digital Agriculture?

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Farming has come a long way since the invention of the tractor for increasing agricultural productivity. The digital age has touched every industry, and agriculture is no exception. Digital agriculture is the use of data and artificial intelligence that helps every ag player up-level how they grow, harvest, and sell food the world over. 

Ep 34: The Pulse of Rural America

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Progressive Farmer Senior Editor joins us to discuss what farmers and rural American’s may be thinking about the year to come in his analysis of the DTN Zogby Pulse of Rural America Survey. We talk COVID impacts, healthcare, the economy, the environment, and more.

Ep 33: A (Not So Quiet) Winter WASDE

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DTN’s Todd Hultman joins us to discuss what’s usually a very quiet report, what neutral outlooks for corn and wheat, and a bullish soybean market, could mean for the markets during the likely quieter months ahead, and why some trader positions might offer some caution.

Developing Technologies to Help Farmers

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Microsoft Azure Global Chief Scientist Ranveer Chandra predicts the future of agriculture will be more data-driven. Microsoft Azure FarmBeats is a purpose-built, industry-specific cloud platform built on top of Azure to enable actionable insights from data supplied from agricultural companies like DTN.

DTN/Progressive Farmer Wins 33 AAEA Awards

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Minneapolis, MN (December 1, 2020) – The DTN/Progressive Farmer newsrooms continue to earn the title of “most awarded newsroom in agriculture.” Recently, the teams won 33 awards in the Ag Communicators Network annual awards contest.

Combines, Planters and Drills: Farmers Choose the Leaders

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Farmers across America have voted and the results of the Progressive Farmer Reader Insights Survey feature the results for the best combines, planters and drills. John Deere, Kinze and Case IH took home top honors in the most recent survey.